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Real Estate Agents, if I save you $9,500, will you send me $950?

Real Estate Agents, if I save you $9,500, will you send me $950?

Ok great! Please contact me at any of my links and I will give you my address, so you can send a check. Please try to send it immediately after reading the Blog, I have 2 kids in College, and Spring tuition is due!! Ok,…

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RealtyFlix :: Video Tours with Navigation to Scenes

RealtyFlix :: Video Tours with Navigation to Scenes

I’ll admit, I’ve been on the fence about video and listings. My 2 core issues w/ video have been the following: No “Navigation” – I’ve been wanting to see better navigation in video tours, so I can jump right to footage of the kitchen per…

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MyBlogLog Adds Support for Zillow, Trulia, and Active Rain Profiles

MyBlogLog Adds Support for Zillow, Trulia, and Active Rain Profiles

It looks like MyBlogLog is aiming to ramp up adoption in the RE.net by adding support for Zillow, Trulia, and Active Rain profiles (and Tumblr, Multiply, and FriendFeed) as part of their Online Services section of MyBlogLog profiles. Now, if you use the About Me…

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Create Real Estate Widgets

Create Real Estate Widgets

Recently at the DEMO Conference (a conference for start-ups to showcase their new technologies), a company called Sprout launched a new application that allows anyone to create a professional Widget. Real Estate agents will like this new slick tool in that it is very easy…

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Introducing MyBlogLog "About Me" Widgets to the RE.net

Introducing MyBlogLog "About Me" Widgets to the RE.net

Over the past 2 years, I’ve seen numerous real estate blogs adopt the MyBlogLog Recent Readers widget — and I love the fact that so many use it. However, I have yet to see a real estate blogger adopt the new About Me widget MBL…

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Amung Us — Checking Out a New Stats Package…

Amung Us — Checking Out a New Stats Package…

I’ve been using a little widget on the sidebar of my blog from Amung Us for quite some time that shows the number of visitors currently on the blog. It’s kinda cool. The map above is a new (to me) Amung Us feature that shows…

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Google/Microsoft translator says $87 million is still $87 million in Japanese

Google/Microsoft translator says $87 million is still $87 million in Japanese

We just translated the Geekestate Blog into Japanese with the help of Google and Microsoft. So what does $87 million mean in Japanese ? Well…$87 million! This amount of capital has no language barriers and everyone around the world can understand that Zillow’s $87 million…

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BlogRush – Yet Another Widget. But Kinda Cool

BlogRush – Yet Another Widget. But Kinda Cool

Unofficially, there are 1,214,782 blog widgets out there. Some are very cool and useful, others not-so-much. “Blog Rush” is a new widget that (according to them) can drive traffic to your blog: BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their…

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Google Embeds Google Maps

Google Embeds Google Maps

We all see those YouTube videos embedded everywhere across the Internet. Google has just implemented the same technology that allowed everyone to place videos onto their blog, myspace account, website, etc. to their Google Maps solution. Take a look at the official announcment. In case…

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Top 10 Widgets for Your Real Estate Blog

Top 10 Widgets for Your Real Estate Blog

There are a wealth of blog widgets out there that can help you satisfy your readers’ desire for real estate information — some of which are excellent, some which aren’t. Here’s 10 widgets that I’ve seen that provide value to consumers: Criteo Auto Roll –…

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